The UN has set some aggressive goals for bringing the world online. The organization’s Broadband Commission for Digital Development has asked all countries to have broadband strategies in place by 2015. By that time, it has hopes that 50 percent of the populace living in developing countries, and 60 percent of those in developed nations, […]
In speech remarks posted on the FCC website, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski announced a plan to bring broadband and mobile broadband access to the entire country. Big talk on this subject is far from new, but the plan portends to achieve this goal by the end of the decade. Genachowski expects the number of people […]
President Barack Obama has called for broadband Internet expansion well beyond the goals previously set by the FCC’s National Broadband Plan. The president has bumped the broadband availability target up to 98 percent of all Americans. Moving toward the higher number is touted as a way to help boost the economic recovery through increased infrastructure […]
The FCC in a new study (PDF) published this week revealed that over two thirds of US broadband Internet access doesn’t meet its newer broadband standards. About 68 percent of connections measured at the end of 2009 were below the 4Mbps download and 1Mbps upload speeds that qualify for the term. A full 58 percent […]
The Federal Communications Commission on Friday, May 21 approved the proposed acquisition of Verizon Communications’ local wireline operations in 14 states by Frontier Communications Corp. The U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and all states requiring regulatory review previously cleared the transaction. Verizon announced the divestiture of its residential and small-business access lines […]
Verizon is taking the next step in redefining the way people watch TV by adding YouTube to its innovative FiOS TV Internet Video capabilities. Qualified customers can now simply use their remote controls to search for and enjoy any YouTube video — right on their TV screens. Verizon is also introducing Internet Radio, for FiOS […]
Palo Alto, Seattle and a coalition of 16 towns in Utah have or will soon have responded to Google’s request for information as the first step to getting the service. Such projects have often been proposed but have frequently been shelved due to various financial and political factors. Axia tried a similar project in Palo […]
While the super flu is not fun, a super fast wireless network is. If you are road warrior or someone that hates having to drink a cup of Joe to access to your e-mail when out of the office or away from home, there is a new 4th generation networking standard called WiMAX which […]
US residential broadband speeds continue to increase, albeit at a slower rate than in 2008. Between year-end 2008 and year-end 2009, downstream bandwidth rose by 28%, reports In-Stat. “Today’s broadband service subscriber is becoming increasingly aware of the capabilities, and the limitations, of their broadband connection,” says Mike Paxton, In-Stat analyst. “More and more broadband […]
The number of fixed broadband subscribers will rise to 501 million at the end of 2014, according to new market data released by ABI Research. Of those, about 106 million will subscribe to services delivered via fiber. Fiber broadband subscribers totaled 44 million at the end of 2009. The number of fixed broadband subscribers totaled […]
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